DepEd adopts Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan for SY 2020-2021
By ANA MARIE P. DULTRA
Obrero Elementary School
Central Butuan District II
Basic education is among the sectors heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as schools and community learning centers are closed for physical conduct of classes. The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to various sectors, especially in responding to basic rights.
In order to provide clear guidance to all offices, units, schools and community learning centers of the Department of Education (DepEd), learners and their parents, partners and stakeholders, the Department developed a Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP).
The BE-LCP is a package of education interventions that will respond to basic education challenges brought about by COVID-19.
In developing the BE-LCP, DepEd engaged internal and external stakeholders for inputs in the design of a learning delivery strategy and operational direction that ensures the health, safety, and well-being of all learners, teachers, and personnel of the Department.
The BE-LCP stands the following principles: Protect the health, safety and well-being of learners, teachers and personnel, and prevent the further transmission of COVID-19; and Ensure learning continuity through K-12 curriculum adjustments, alignment of learning materials, deployment of multiple learning delivery modalities, provision of corresponding training for teachers and school leaders, and proper orientation of parents or guardians of learners.
Also, it facilitates the safe return of teaching and non-teaching personnel and learners to workplaces and schools/CLCs, taking into consideration the scenarios projected by the Department of health and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Philippines, complemented by other credible sources and balanced with DepEd’s own risk assessments.
It also stands to be sensitive to equity considerations and concerns, and endeavor to address them the best we can; and link the bridge the BE-LCP to DepEd’s pivot to quality and into the future of education under the framework of Sulong Edukalidad and Futures Thinking in Education. ###
